17. Februar 2012

Batch BR Releases #2

Since I already mentioned it before, here's the information on our second Batch release.
We actually wanted to have this one for January, but things came up, a script was stubborn, and it took me forever to find the errors.
I tell you: trying to adjust scripts by other typesetters, especially if you do not write your own effects with the same program, is nerve wracking, seriously time consuming and drove me nuts.
What really made this batch release taking so long was "Haru no Arashi". It was previously done by one of our new typesetters, that came and went within 2 or 3 releases - Meyouu.
I really had no idea about template karaokes n stuff before that, but during the past 3 weeks I actually learned a lot, and also realized - it's not my program of choice!
I love you asscalc!

Anyway! This Mano Batch includes the following singles:

Otome no Inori
Hajimete no Keiken
Sekai wa Summer Party
Kono Mune no Tokimeki wo
Love & Peace = Paradise
Haru no Arashi
Onegai Dakara…


You will especially enjoy the last one "Onegai Dakara", because it was encoded in all it's 60fps splendor and looks like you can dive into the video and touch her face. I was seriously drooling over this video when I saw the encode...I think I freaked out SC quite a bit right there.

The good news with this batch is, that we still had all the scripts up until her 7th major single. We will also do her 8th and 9th single at some point - we even kept the BR raws for that and have scripts waiting - but the sad news is, that we will probably drop her after that. I didn't much enjoy her latest 2 singles and I'm not going to force them on me, or SC for that matter, since he's not the biggest fan of her anyway.

Okay, that's it for now.

The next Batch-torrent will be out early next month, if everything goes according to plan. Stay tuned!


16. Februar 2012

Batch BR Releases #1

Hey there everyone!
I think I forgot to talk about a few releases that came out in the past month from H!F, so here we go.

Late last year UFA released the BLUray DVDs for most PV singles of their affiliated groups, especially Hello!Project. Since we do like us some BR quality, we, SC and I, decided that we'd release our old videos in the new and shiny BR resolution and quality. And that's what we did.
Since we do not have all the scripts to all the songs anymore (okay, honestly, we mostly still have those that I worked on personally, but not the ones that other Typesetters did) we decided to grab those videos that we still had scripts for and release them in a batch.
But since adjusting scripts can be time consuming, and we try to find any mistakes that we previously overlooked, this took us longer than we thought.

Our plan now is to release the videos in Batches according to groups (C-ute, BerryZ, Mano, Morning Musume). Since we never worked on any Smileage related videos we'll skip on those.
That said, our first Release Batch was C-ute.

The Batch Torrents includes remakes and adjusted scripts for the following Singles:

Edo no Temari Uta II
FOREVER LOVE
SHOCK!
Campus Life ~Umarete Kite Yokatta~
Aitai Lonely Christmas
Kiss me Aishiteru


The highlight in this batch was definilty "Kiss me Aishiteru" since this is a new release, that we never released previously. It is also the first finished project of one of our new typesetters. He's unfortunately kind of slow, but he is thorough, which is why it takes some time but the end product is really enjoyable.

'Nough said for today.
Please enjoy this Batch and look forward to our next one (which is Mano Erina and should be out today).


11. Februar 2012

Saiunkoku

Yay!!

Yesterday morning my friend, that has been staying here for the past 3 weeks, left and I was finally able to get my apartment back to myself, which also means I was able to get some work done!
I was glad to have someone stay over, but what was first planned out as a 1-week stay turned into a 3-week stay. It was okay - we had lots of fun here, had a lot of different things to do and everyday something new to eat or had friends over - but since we couldn't be alone at all, it was also rather hard on both of us. I didn't think it would turn out this hard to be together with someone for 3 weeks. I guess I was used to being alone and getting stuff done in my own time. What made it really hard was probably that he was sleeping in my living room and I couldn't enjoy my TV, or work at whatever times I want. BUT, it's fine. I had fun, and I know I'm not going to see him for a long time now.
Oh well.

So, I was able to get one project done today. It's Saiunkoku Monogatari Opening and Ending. It turned out quite fine. I actually had everything uploaded when I decided to change something again, so I had to upload an Ending Version 2 right afterwards.
I hope my client will love it.
I guess I'll give you an update and screenshots whenever I get an okay.

So for now that's it.
I guess I'll see you all again soon!

6. Februar 2012

Twitter

Hey there, everyone! Did you see the few changes I did to my page?

I haven't been doing a lot of fansubbing stuff lately. I currently have a friend staying over until he is done with his Masters, that's why I'm not really around much.
I did add Twitter to this page, so you can now follow me on Twitter and Facebook! \o/

Anyways, thanks for over 10000hits (even though the visitor numbers in the right navi bar are different) on the page. I couldn't believe the number.
Hope to have some new stuff reports for you guys soon! Until then stay healthy and creative!